supine
C2CEFR level
72/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Lying face upwards on the back.
He lay supine on the grass, watching the clouds drift overhead.
Medicine adjective
Lying on the back with the face upward.
We laid the patient supine on the trolley before starting our primary survey.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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